To be honest, this policy just shows me how much QR has lost its way - I think I'm right in saying Al Safwa is now the only lounge globally which is operated by an airline that denies access to all status passengers but allows paid access to anyone! QRPC becomes more pointless by the day.

I find it an odd way that they are doing it.

I can understand why they are want to utilise the space more, and why they want to monetise that at the moment. I just don't understand the way that they do it.

On the flip side. As far as I have seen, Qatar has not written about this offer anywhere. Making it easy to remove the offer. And as it is only blog readers, and word of mouth at the moment, keeping the numbers low is a natural effect. But ideally, I would say they should used focused invitations to their high value flyers. That would cut me off, but I'll survive that.. .